Reply To: Post on “Citta, Manō, Viññāna – Nine Stages of a Thought”

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Lal
Keymaster

At the beginning of the post, it is stated: “A citta evolves into viññānakkhanda via nine stages.” See “Citta Evolving To Viññāna And Viññākkhanda In Nine Steps.

  • The mind starts at the “citta” stage and evolves into the viññānakkhanda stage in a citta vithi. But that repeats over many citta vithi, and the javana power increases to the level of doing kamma after numerous citta vithi that occur within seconds.
  • The citta, mano, mansan stages are within the “bahiddha vinnana” stage (which also takes place for an Arahant.)
  • It gets to the ajjhatta vinnana stage when the mind attaches to the sensory input (i.e., the “distorted sanna.”) I think I mentioned that in the post. Again, that ajjhatta vinnana strengthens with time if the mind stays on that sensory input.
  • So, the mind goes through the “purana kamma” and “nava kamma” stages also during that process.